Look at what the west does to Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. How can Russia be safe if the US don’t continue arm restriction treaties and develop space weapons against MAD?
If you sum up death and influence, you are making a pro Russian argument. But I wasn’t making a moral argument. OP asked for imperialist reasons. If the US doesn’t honor UN law and isn’t made so by its allies and the other powerful nations, which other options does Russia have to be safe?
If you really believe this, you are laughably uneducated. Probably went to school outside of Europe?
Sure, let’s act like Russia, China, India and Iran didn’t commit some of the worst atrocities against humanity because someone else did something similar. <- This is a joke btw. Just like your argument 😎
Russia is not USSR. What did India do? What did Iran do that is among the worst atrocities against humanity? If they didn’t commit atrocities then what’s the argument?
Mostly Iran has been a punching bag with alot more genuine grievances against other nations than other nations have against them. Yes, their government sucks but including them in your list is a little weird.
Syria? That country Russia very recently occupied to prop up a dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people? Or are we talking about a different Syria here?
If there’s one consistent about the Russian nation, apart from invading their neighbors, it’s whataboutism. Yes, the US does awful things but Russia does awful things and for the same reasons.
Idk man, I don’t remember the west forcing you to invade your neighbor for imperialist reasons.
Not to mention Salisbury
Look at what the west does to Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries. How can Russia be safe if the US don’t continue arm restriction treaties and develop space weapons against MAD?
Oh my God, neither side is perfect. That means they must both be exactly the same, right??
If you sum up death and influence, you are making a pro Russian argument. But I wasn’t making a moral argument. OP asked for imperialist reasons. If the US doesn’t honor UN law and isn’t made so by its allies and the other powerful nations, which other options does Russia have to be safe?
If you really believe this, you are laughably uneducated. Probably went to school outside of Europe?
Sure, let’s act like Russia, China, India and Iran didn’t commit some of the worst atrocities against humanity because someone else did something similar. <- This is a joke btw. Just like your argument 😎
I don’t understand the joke.
Russia is not USSR. What did India do? What did Iran do that is among the worst atrocities against humanity? If they didn’t commit atrocities then what’s the argument?
Russia was the main political, cultural, economic, and population component of the USSR and is considered the successor state to the USSR.
Like Germany and Japan with the difference that Russia hasn’t lost the war. Still, where is the continuity in atrocities?
Mostly Iran has been a punching bag with alot more genuine grievances against other nations than other nations have against them. Yes, their government sucks but including them in your list is a little weird.
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Russia hasn’t done these things because they feel unsafe; they have their own imperialist ambitions and work steadily towards those goals.
Why do you think so? There are enough western analysts who stress the strategic importance of Ukraine for Russian security.
Syria? That country Russia very recently occupied to prop up a dictator who used chemical weapons against his own people? Or are we talking about a different Syria here?
Are we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
You mean the civil war between the authoritarian regime that only allowed one party to rule, and the rebels fighting for democracy?
After Congo, Iran and Chile, let’s not pretend that they were fighting for democracy.
If there’s one consistent about the Russian nation, apart from invading their neighbors, it’s whataboutism. Yes, the US does awful things but Russia does awful things and for the same reasons.
I am not comparing. I am asking how Russia can be safe. OP asked about imperial reasons.
Russia has nukes. I don’t think anyone is going to invade Russia
Like SDI, Starshield destroys MAD.
To control China it would be very helpful to control Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield